is a Japanese isekai light novel series written by EDA and illustrated by Kochimo. It began serialization online in 2014 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was acquired by Hobby Japan, who published the first light novel volume in October 2015 under their HJ Novels imprint. Thirty-one volumes have been released as of December 2023. A

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adaptation with art by Kochimo has been serialized online via Hobby Japan's Comic Fire website since 2018. Both the light novel and manga have been licensed in North America by J-Novel Club.

Premise

Asuta Tsurumi is a Japanese teenager who manages a restaurant with his father. When a fire breaks out at the restaurant, Asuta enters the burning building to retrieve his father's cooking knife, and finds himself in another world with nothing but the clothes on his back and his father's knife. He encounters Ai Fa, a woman who is a member of a group of people living at the edge of a forest, and teaches the community about the value of well-cooked food using a

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-like animal known as giba.

Media

Light novels

The light novel series was originally published by EDA as a free-to-read web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2014 and Hobby Japan published the first volume in print with illustrations by Kochimo in October 2015. As of December 7, 2023, thirty-one volumes have been published. The light novel is licensed in North America by J-Novel Club. As of December 2023, twenty-two English volumes have been published.

Manga

The series was adapted into a

series by Kochimo and published by Hobby Japan, with nine volumes released as of December 7, 2023. The manga is also licensed by J-Novel Club. As of December 7, 2023, seven English volumes have been published.

Reception

Rebecca Silverman of

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gave the first volume a grade of B−, praising its handling of cultural differences and the quality of the English translation. She wrote: "''Cooking with Wild Game'' isn't the most thrilling of books, but it is setting up to perhaps spend more time on things that aren't excessive amounts of game-preparation... If you enjoy cooking stories, this is an interesting one, even if it has yet to achieve a perfect balance of its story elements."

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